Ex-Cincy cop's case debated

Ohio Supreme Court hearing Tuesday

8:34 PM,
Mar. 8, 2013

Steele

Written by

Janice Morse

Ohio's highest court will consider whether to reinstate two abduction convictions of a former Cincinnati police detective who also was convicted of intimidating a teen into falsely confessing to robberies.

The Supreme Court of Ohio is set to hear arguments Tuesday in Columbus regarding the case of Julian Steele.

The case arises from Steele's 2009 investigation of a series of street robberies in Northside. Steele jailed a teen for the crimes, then later "admitted he wrongly arrested the teen to get access to his mother," the Enquirer reported in 2010. The boy's mother testified she ...